Our Enduring Values
Our Enduring Values

Author: Michael Gorman

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2000-06

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9780838907856

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A must-read for progressive librarians everywhere, Our Enduring Values will help you to define your role in the library of the future.

Libraries Serving Dialogue
Libraries Serving Dialogue

Author: Odile Dupont

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2014-08-25

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 3110317028

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The IFLA Religious Libraries in Dialogue Special Interest Group is dedicated to libraries serving as places of dialogue between cultures through a better knowledge of religions. This book based on experiences of libraries serving interreligious dialogue, presents themes like library tools serving dialogue between cultures, collections dialoguing, children and young adults dialoguing beyond borders, story telling as dialog, librarians serving interreligious dialogue.

The Wall of the Earth
The Wall of the Earth

Author: Giorgio Caproni

Publisher: Guernica Editions

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 9780920717530

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"The work of Giorgio Caproni has been translated into French, German, and Chinese, among others, but this collection is his first book-length English publication. His works are finely tuned to modern man's preoccupations with existence in a world deprived of certainties (for example, the existence or inexistence of God). Most are touched by experiences such as the Second World War and its atrocities, the Resistance Movement, or the death of loved ones, events that represent the conviction of a subject that will do its best to survive all adversity, uncompromised" -- from the Introduction by Pasquale Verdicchio

The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance
The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance

Author: Angela Nuovo

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9004208496

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This work offers the first English-language survey of the book industry in Renaissance Italy. Whereas traditional accounts of the book in the Renaissance celebrate authors and literary achievement, this study examines the nuts and bolts of a rapidly expanding trade that built on existing economic practices while developing new mechanisms in response to political and religious realities. Approaching the book trade from the perspective of its publishers and booksellers, this archive-based account ranges across family ambitions and warehouse fires to publishers' petitions and convivial bookshop conversation. In the process it constructs a nuanced picture of trading networks, production, and the distribution and sale of printed books, a profitable but capricious commodity. Originally published in Italian as Il commercio librario nell’Italia del Rinascimento (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1998; second, revised ed., 2003), this present English translation has not only been updated but has also been deeply revised and augmented.